A MALIGNED CITY.

Wairarapa Age, 3 November 1930, Page 4

A MALIGNED CITY.

NEW ZEALAND PROFESSOR ON CHICAGO. OBSERATIONS ON LIQUOR CONTROL. Speaking to an audience of teachers, in Maaterton on Saturday on qducational questions, Professor W. H. Gould made one or two interesting digressions. In one of these, he declared that Chicago was a much maligned city. During his recent visit to Chicago, he said, ho saw no evidences of the terrible lawlessness about which one heard—none whatever. Chicago was a magnificent arid beautiful city, and, he thought, exceptionally well managed and governed. He could not but feel that tho stories they got. repeatedly in the newspapers gave a totally distorted view of Chicago—stories of bombing tragedies and that sort of thing. Ono man in Chicago reminded him that there were nearly four million people in the city and added that for the last ten years he had known tho place very well and had never known a single man to have been shot who should not have been shot. Chicago was a wonderful city, with a huge cosmopolitan population. No 'doubt Southern European elements in its population carried on their traditional vendettas, but tho average citizen of Chicago knew nothing about it and was just as lawabiding as tho average citizen here. From Chicago, Professor Gould told bis hearers, he went on to Detroit and then proceded to Toronto. Arriv ing in the Cana'dian city at 9 o'clock at night, he went to a hotel which had been recommended to him, but .was told he could not be put up unless he agreed to share a room. He went upstairs to the room and on opening the door was met by clouds of tobacco-smoke. Looking in he saw a collection of men fthd women smoking arid drinking. H 6 had come out of Prohibition America into State control Canada and this was what he saw. They heard a great deal about Prohibition in America.. He might say that during the whole time he Was in the United States no one offered him a drink and he never ascertained where he could get one. Altogether, in the United States, he saw five people who ostensibly had been drinking. Two were young men in Honolulu who only fancied themselves drunk. He saw two persons in New York and one in Philadelphia under the influence of liquor. Then, as soon as he went across into British territory, he found fifteen men and women drinking as ho had described. In Canada they had State control. There were public beerhouses where you could go and get your drink—a kind of superior hop beer, of low alcoholic content. If you wanted anything stronger, such, ae whisky, you had to go to a State depot, and you had to have a license, costing about two and n half dollars. This entitled you to purchase a bottle of whisky, but you must not consume it on the premises or on the streets. You must consume it in your own homo. Drinking in public bars Was bad enough, but he asked them to consider what the effect must be of driving it into the homes. It seemed to him that the effect could bo nothing else than bad. The people of whom he had spoken were using the hotel as a temporary home for drinking purposes.